Dear Readers,

It is done! While – at least in the northern hemisphere – “Summer 2010” is ready to start into its next “hot phase,” the OBTAINER editorial team is quickly taking the opportunity to wipe the sweat off its collective brow and is pleased to be able to lay the new issue of OBTAINER WORLDWIDE “on your desk hot off the digital press” again today.

Darrell Utterbach, Royal Black Diamond at MonaVie, died during the night to the 1st September. Dallin A. Larsen, Founder and CEO of MonaVie, addressed himself with the following letter to the MonaVie-Family, which the OBTAINER publishes completely: “It is with profound sadness that I communicate to you the passing of Darrell Utterbach, Royal Black Diamond distributor, MonaVie Distributor Advisory Board member, loving family man, and dear friend and colleague. Darrell passed away unexpectedly last night (MST) while conducting business in Seoul, Korea.

Vorwerk can look forward to an award for the design of the 2009 annual report. 15 judges reviewed and evaluated the 6,369 submitted applications of which only close to 10% were given the “red dot Award“. Since 1995 the “Design Zentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen“ in Essen has been honouring outstanding design. Today, the red dot Award is one of the world’s leading and largest design competitions. In three categories, the “red dot award: product design“,“red dot award: communication design“ and “red dot award: design concept“, about 13,000 submissions are being reviewed by the judges every year.

At this year’s USANA International Convention from August 25-28, the company was one of the first nutritional supplement manufacturers to introduce a product that is utilizing the so-called “hybrid technology”. Thousands of distribution partners at the event enthusiastically received the news that USANA is now using this cutting-edge manufacturing process. “USANA is proud to be a leader in the development of nutritional supplement technologies“, said Dr. Tim Wood, USANA Executive Vice President of Research and Development, and added: “USANA´s hybrid technology shows our commitment to innovative manufacturing processes in the production of high-quality nutritional supplements”.

“XanGo Germany is strong and competent,” stated XanGo’s management during a news release, with which the company has recently reacted to a business rival’s newsletter, who under the title “XanGo-Juice in Germany is finished” wanted to dedicate a farewell song to the company from Lehi in Utha.  In actual fact the real truth is that merely the new XanGo Reserva is taking on the heritage of the original XanGo-Juice, with which the company had originally written its initial world-wide success story – see the OBTAINER front-page story from issue 7/2010.

The “Herbalife International Germany GmbH” experienced a change in personnel.  Mrs. Harteneck-Kohl resigned from her lastly-held position as country director for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.  Herbalife confirmed this news and forwarded the following statement to the OBTAINER editorial office:  “Herbalife can confirm that Claudia Harteneck-Kohl has resigned from her position of country director for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Shortly, the European Summit of the U.S.-American company Synergy Worldwide is going to take place in Europe.  But the company is also particularly successful in many Asian countries. Over the past few months, an enormous growth was especially noticeable in Korea and Thailand. So what could be more natural than a short stop at the Thai Synergy office by OBTAINER founder Michael Sander, who was in Bangkok for a visit as part of a corporate consulting.

Once again the ZDF (Second German Televison Station) broadcasted a critical report on the company KB Gold. OBTAINER had also published several critical reports on KB Gold in the past. Now, our founder Michael Sander surprisingly received the announcement of a visit from Germany. Dennis Nowak, the most successful networker at the company KB Gold wanted to provide the OBTAINER founder with his point of view!

“Therefore we can guarantee that MonaVie’s compensation plan is both legal and a true financial opportunity for our German distribution partners”. This was the main statement from an announcement of “MonaVie LLC“, with which the US company responded to a blog post by the well-known “Industry Attorney” Stephan R. Schulenberg on Thursday that had been causing quite some turbulence in MLM circles and among MonaVie distributors since Tuesday.

The company Nuriche announced that Joseph Ware has been appointed as its new vice president and he is now in charge of the global expansion of Nuriche.  Beforehand, Joseph Ware was responsible for the operating business.  Momentarily, Nuriche sells its products in Canada and in the USA.

The “Jafra Cosmetics International, Inc.” with its head office in Westlake Village, California and which has been a member of the outwork-group since 2004 announced that the product range “Men’s Skin Care” has received the renowned Skin Cancer Foundation seal.  The independent institute only awards this internationally recognized seal to skincare products that contain a sun protection factor of at least 15.  Jafra now has more than 100 cosmetic and skincare products that have won the seal.

Authorities in Iran have prohibited Oriflame’s business activities in their country and arrested three executives among which there is thought to be a Swedish citizen.  The Iranian Oriflame office in Tehran was closed on Sunday August 22 2010.  The three people were arrested without being given a specific reason so that Oriflame is not in the position to provide any information on the background of the authority’s decision. 

With Lennon Ledbetter XanGo won another marketing icon as a distributor. There can be no better term for Lennon Ledbetter since he ranks among the most well-known and highest-earnest networkers worldwide. Ledbetter is the founder of the famous ”Team Builders Global”. Naturally, the CEO and founder of XanGo, Aaron Garrity, is very happy about this addition to the team of XanGo distributors that has by now grown to over 1 million distribution partners in 35 countries worldwide:”We are very pleased about this development in the past eight years that is so dynamic that it attracts such successful leaders as Lennon even without any guarantees or signing bonuses“.

On the first PM International AG Family-Day – OBTAINER is going to report in detail about this event that attracted several thousand PM distribution partners on July 17th, 2010 at the area of the Hockenheim airport – funds for a good cause were raised as well. The association “Das kunterbunte Kinderzelt e.V.“ (the colourful children’s tent) was one of the partners for the PM-Family-Day. By now, PM-International founder and chairman Rolf Sorg, together with the PM Charity Representative Beate Schmitt, was able to provide the association with a cheque of a total amount of EUR 5,000.

The marketing Xocolate International Corporation (MXI-Corp), the manufacturers of healthy Xoçai™ chocolate products have launched a new Xoçai™ product thus expanding the  Xoçai™ line to include an important dietary supplement: the Xe energy drink. The Xe energy drink is rich in antioxidants and contains two of the best radical scavengers in the world: cacao and açai. The energy drink is free from artificial flavors and colors, doesn’t contain artificial sweeteners, refined sugar or any conserving agents.

There’s a “new world” out there! Numondu has launched. Punctually on August 16th – just as promised – the “Energy People”, who have been spreading out from Düsseldorf throughout the entirety of Germany and across surrounding countries, have launched with the aim of bringing a breath of fresh air and good taste onto the German network marketing scene. As far as the OBTAINER knows, many of the well over 1000 preregistered partners, who registered for the “benefits package” over the last two weeks, were sent the highly anticipated goods yesterday; executives a few days previously.

Lyoness is celebrating its premiere. Company management, distributors and their guests will all travel to Bratislava on September 18th for the highlight of the company’s event, the “Lyoness Sensation”. The capital of Slovakia, with its historical character, baroque palaces and churches as well as various parks and lakes, is a particularly beautiful location for a top-class international event. The event’s agenda certainly does the name “sensation” every justice.

Scentsy Inc., one of the fastest growing direct selling companies, has made it to number 64 on the list of the global “Top 100 Direct Sales Companies“. With revenues of U.S. $178.4 mm in 2009 it has almost tripled its sales compared to the previous year. The top 100 list is being published annually in the Direct Selling News of the Direct Selling Association (DSA). The companies listed range from sales of more than 10 billion dollars (Number 1) to 67 million dollars.

Once again over 1000 guests and distribution partners accepted invitations from Thomas Schmitz and Jörg Wittke, the founders of the “All Stars United Team”, and made their way to Bad Soden in Taunus (Germany) for the third DubLi day. The founder of DubLi, Michael Hansen, was once again present on August 15th and himself, Steve Olds and Brack Jaskey informed those present about DubLi’s successful concept, which combines e-commerce, social community and network marketing in an extremely unique way, with their contributions on the day.

In the beginning of August, the company QNet started the “Network Seminar Series“ (NSS) in the entire Middle East. This series of events is supposed to give the IRs, as the QNet distribution partners are called, more security. Several times over the last few years, QNet made the headlines since the company looks back on unique successes that caught the interest of different governments in the Middle East.

The founders Kent Wood and Dr. Morton returned excited from their short visit to Mexico. On Friday, August 6th, Kent Wood and Dr. Morton met with many executives and distributors at a pre-meeting. Already then, both of them felt how big the enthusiasm for XanGo is in Mexico. The sea of distributors and visitors already showed beforehand what would be going on the next day at the actual event in Culiacán: In the rented room in Mexico City, reserved for originally 400 people, an actual 680 people were present.